retire vb. (1 an Eliz. sense)
1.
to return Troil. I. iii. 281,
Oth. III. iii. 456
“retiring ebb,”
Ven. 906
“now she will no
further, But back r-s,”
Lucr. 962.
2.
refl. to withdraw
Tp. V. i. 310
“ me to my
Milan,”
R2 IV. i. 96
“retir'd himself To
Italy,”
Oth. II. iii. 389
“ thee;
go where thou art billeted”
; to retreat in battle John V. iii. 13.
